Slashing CO2Making chemicals with enzymes, not oil.
Big Picture
Historically one of the dirtiest sectors of the economy, the $6 trillion chemicals industry is responsible for roughly 10% of global energy consumption and 20% of all industrial greenhouse gas emissions. Pollution is produced at every step in the production of chemicals, from petroleum-derived feedstocks to processing to transportation. On top of that, many chemicals are notoriously unsafe to make.
How it Works
Solugen combines directed evolution of enzymes with machine learning to produce an array of specialty chemicals. These chemicals directly substitute for the combustible and usually toxic petroleum-based versions that are the building blocks of countless industrial and consumer products, from cleaners to cosmetics and beyond. Solugen avoids and removes CO₂ at every step, starting with carbon-storing feedstocks.
Unfair Advantage
Solugen makes commodity products at lower cost, higher margin, and significantly lower capex than one of the world’s largest, dirtiest, and slowest industries. Today, Solugen makes glucaric and gluconic acid, ubiquitous chemicals found in nearly every industry. But they’ve scaled a platform for enzyme production that now lets them replicate their process for one chemical after another.
90
Percent
of all chemicals can be made with Solugen tech
GAURAB CHAKRABARTI CEO & CO-FOUNDER
Gaurab is a physician-scientist with an MD/PhD in Cancer Biology and Enzymology.
SEAN HUNT CTO & CO-FOUNDER
Sean was a fuel cell engineer for the US Navy. He earned his PhD in Chemical Engineering from MIT.
Solugen is making chemicals from sugar, not petroleum
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